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82 produkter
American Cinema of the 1950s
Themes and Variations
Av Murray Pomerance, Murray Pomerance
Häftad, 2005
414 kr
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America in the 1950s was a place of sensational commercial possibility coupled with dark nuclear fears and conformist politics. Cold war hysteria and anti-communist witch hunts influenced a culture already falling under the spell of suburbia, television and a brave new world of luxury …
Michelangelo Red Antonioni Blue
Eight Reflections on Cinema
Häftad, 2011
326 kr
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Michelangelo Antonioni, who died in 2007, was one of cinema's greatest modernist filmmakers. The films in his black and white trilogy of the early 1960s - "L'avventura," "La Notte," "L'eclisse" -are justly celebrated for their influential, gorgeously austere style. But in this book, Murray …
Michelangelo Red Antonioni Blue
Eight Reflections on Cinema
E-bok, 2011
552 kr
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Michelangelo Antonioni, who died in 2007, was one of cinema’s greatest modernist filmmakers. The films in his black and white trilogy of the early 1960s— L’avventura, La Notte, L‘eclisse —are justly celebrated for their influential, gorgeously austere style. But in this book, Murray Pomerance …
Alfred Hitchcock's America
Inbunden, 2013
836 kr
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With a sharp eye for social detail and the pressures of class inequality, Alfred Hitchcock brought to the American scene a perspicacity and analytical shrewdness unparalleled in American cinema. Murray Pomerance works from a basis in cultural analysis and a detailed knowledge of Alfred Hitchcock's …
Alfred Hitchcock's America
Häftad, 2013
329 kr
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With a sharp eye for social detail and the pressures of class inequality, Alfred Hitchcock brought to the American scene a perspicacity and analytical shrewdness unparalleled in American cinema. Murray Pomerance works from a basis in cultural analysis and a detailed knowledge of Alfred Hitchcock's …
Alfred Hitchcock's America
E-bok, 2013
363 kr
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With a sharp eye for social detail and the pressures of class inequality, Alfred Hitchcock brought to the American scene a perspicacity and analytical shrewdness unparalleled in American cinema. Murray Pomerance works from a basis in cultural analysis and a detailed knowledge of Alfred Hitchcock''s …
George Cukor
Hollywood Master
Av Murray Pomerance, R. Barton Palmer
Inbunden, 2015
1383 kr
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George Cukor is one of the studio era’s most famous and admired directors, with many of the American cinema’s most beloved classics to his credit, including The Women, Gaslight, Adam’s Rib, A Star is Born, and My Fair Lady to his credit. Not himself a scriptwriter, he was particularly adept at …
Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls
Gender in Film at the End of the Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2001
502 kr
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Examines gender roles in contemporary foreign and Hollywood films amid changing social, political, cultural, and economic conditions.Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls examines the bizarre and fascinating range of gender portrayals in film at the end of the twentieth century. In order to view the …
Bad
Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen
Häftad, 2003
648 kr
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Examines the many forms of cinematic "badness" over the past one hundred years, from Nosferatu to The Talented Mr. Ripley.Violence and corruption sell big, especially since the birth of action cinema, but even from cinema's earliest days, the public has been delighted to be stunned by screen …
Cinema and Modernity
Häftad, 2006
413 kr
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The modern impulse gave us captivating technology and dark anxiety, rampant mobility and a world filled with strangers, the futuristic city and a fragmentation of experience. Motion pictures––the quintessence of modernism––entered into this cultural, technical, and philosophical richness with a …
Horse Who Drank the Sky
Film Experience Beyond Narrative and Theory
Häftad, 2008
453 kr
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What is most important about cinema is that we are alive with it. For all its dramatic, literary, political, sociological, and philosophical weight, film is ultimately an art that provokes, touches, and riddles the viewer through an image that transcends narrative and theory. In The Horse Who Drank …
Shining in Shadows
Movie Stars of the 2000s
Häftad, 2011
483 kr
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In the 2000s, new technologies transformed the experiences of movie-going and movie-making, giving us the first generation of stars to be just as famous on the computer screen as on the silver screen.Shining in Shadows examines a wide range of Hollywood icons from a turbulent decade for the film …
Eyes Have It
Cinema and the Reality Effect
Häftad, 2013
498 kr
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The Eyes Have It explores those rarified screen moments when viewers are confronted by sights that seem at once impossible and present, artificial and stimulating, illusory and definitive. Beginning with a penetrating study of five cornfield sequences-including The Wizard of Oz, Arizona Dream, and …
Moment of Action
Riddles of Cinematic Performance
Häftad, 2016
376 kr
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There are hundreds of biographies of filmstars and dozens of scholarly works on acting in general. But what about the ephemeral yet indelible moments when, for a brief scene or even just a single shot, an actor’s performance triggers a visceral response in the viewer? Moment of Action delves into …
Moment of Action
Riddles of Cinematic Performance
Inbunden, 2016
1506 kr
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There are hundreds of biographies of filmstars and dozens of scholarly works on acting in general. But what about the ephemeral yet indelible moments when, for a brief scene or even just a single shot, an actor’s performance triggers a visceral response in the viewer? Moment of Action delves into …
Thinking in the Dark
Cinema, Theory, Practice
Av Murray Pomerance, R. Barton Palmer
Häftad, 2015
523 kr
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Today’s film scholars draw from a dizzying range of theoretical perspectives-they’re just as likely to cite philosopher Gilles Deleuze as they are to quote classic film theorist AndrÉ Bazin. To students first encountering them, these theoretical lenses for viewing film can seem exhilarating, but …
Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice
Cinemas of Girlhood
Av Frances Gateward, Murray Pomerance
Häftad, 2002
332 kr
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From ""The Wizard of Oz"" to ""Lolita"", from ""Heathers"" to ""Spice Girls - The Movie"", images of girlhood have been projected on the silver screen in myriad ways. Films have depicted society's problematic expectations of girls together with the dreams, anxieties and tensions experienced by …
Where the Boys Are
Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth
Av Murray Pomerance, Frances Gateward
Häftad, 2005
412 kr
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The development of young masculine sexuality is still a cultural taboo of sorts, and until now there has been little scholarship available that discusses aspects of boyhood and its relation to cinema - in particular, the process whereby masculinities are socially, historically, economically, …
Hollywood's Chosen People
The Jewish Experience in American Cinema
Av Daniel Bernardi, Murray Pomerance m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
382 kr
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As studio bosses, directors, and actors, Jews have been heavily involved in film history and vitally involved in all aspects of film production. Yet Jewish characters have been represented onscreen in stereotypical and disturbing ways, while Jews have also helped to produce some of the most …
Last Laugh
Strange Humors of Cinema
Häftad, 2013
397 kr
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For critics, fans and scholars of drama and film, the laugh has traditionally been tied to comedy, indicating and expressing mirth, witty relief, joyous celebration, or arch and sarcastic parody. But strange, dark laughter that illuminates non-comedic, unfunny situations gets much less attention. …
Where the Boys Are
Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth
Av Murray Pomerance, Frances Gateward
E-bok, 2005
291 kr
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A provocative, contemporary anthology examining the construction of boys’ identity in modern cinema.
Enfant Terrible!
Jerry Lewis in American Film
Inbunden, 2002
1297 kr
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The one thing everybody knows about Jerry Lewis is that he is beloved by the French, those incomprehensible hedonistic strangers across the sea. The French understand him, while in the U.S. he is at best a riddle, not one of us. Lewis is someone we take profound pleasure in excluding, if not …
Enfant Terrible!
Jerry Lewis in American Film
Häftad, 2002
453 kr
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The one thing everybody knows about Jerry Lewis is that he is beloved by the French, those incomprehensible hedonistic strangers across the sea. The French understand him, while in the U.S. he is at best a riddle, not one of us. Lewis is someone we take profound pleasure in excluding, if not …
George Cukor
Hollywood Master
Av Murray Pomerance, R. Barton Palmer
Häftad, 2026
267 kr
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George Cukor is one of the studio era’s most famous and admired directors, with many of the American cinema’s most beloved classics to his credit, including The Women, Gaslight, Adam’s Rib, A Star is Born, and My Fair Lady to his credit. Not himself a scriptwriter, he was particularly adept at …
Dream of Hitchcock
Häftad, 2019
657 kr
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Explores the director's repeated voyages into the dreamlike.A Dream of Hitchcock examines the recurring motif of the dream in Hitchcock's work-dreamscapes, dream processes, the dream effect-by focusing on close readings of six celebrated but often misinterpreted films: Strangers on a Train, …
Voyage with Hitchcock
Häftad, 2022
688 kr
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Extensive meditations on the theme of the voyage in six Hitchcock films: Psycho, The 39 Steps, The Birds, Dial M for Murder, Rich and Strange, and Suspicion.Following from An Eye for Hitchcock and A Dream for Hitchcock, this third volume of reflections upon Alfred Hitchcock's work gives extensive …
Voyage with Hitchcock
Inbunden, 2021
1336 kr
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Extensive meditations on the theme of the voyage in six Hitchcock films: Psycho, The 39 Steps, The Birds, Dial M for Murder, Rich and Strange, and Suspicion.Following from An Eye for Hitchcock and A Dream for Hitchcock, this third volume of reflections upon Alfred Hitchcock's work gives extensive …
Silence from Hitchcock
Inbunden, 2023
1365 kr
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Extensive meditations on silence in the films of Alfred Hitchcock.In A Silence from Hitchcock, Murray Pomerance explores the resonating power of silence in the director's work-its variation, its haunting temptation, and its technical power. Working from a meditative devotion to and an illuminating …
Silence from Hitchcock
Häftad, 2023
433 kr
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Extensive meditations on silence in the films of Alfred Hitchcock.In A Silence from Hitchcock, Murray Pomerance explores the resonating power of silence in the director's work-its variation, its haunting temptation, and its technical power. Working from a meditative devotion to and an illuminating …
